Generally speaking, yes. It is a qualified yes -- it may be a hybrid, so there could be some variability in the plants that grow out. However, they still should yield perfectly good popcorn. And, there is also a small possibility that it may have been heat treated at some point to kill insects or to dry it, rendering it dead so that it won't germinate. But overall, it should work. If you can find an heirloom type such as Dakota Black, you would know you weren't getting a hybrid.

I have done that before. It turned out great.

DeBruyn out of Michigan has both white and yellow varieties still available. They offer good seed at an excellent price.

Sandhill Preservation has plenty as does Southern Exposure and Fedco Seeds.

Sandill

if they were to heat treat the pop corn seed so to speak before packageing it there would be no need to even sell it the moisture in the kernel is what make s it it. and when you apply heat to it it in turn takes the moisture out. they do not heat treat it to take out bugs . and to dry it they do use froced air heat driers but not enough concentrated heat at the right time. Farmers cut the corn when they can get into the field and sometimes they have to mud the stuff out hence leaving the grain wet therefore in return having to dry it. so after the corn is dry in the bin or at the elevator they use a cleaning machine on it thats how the other stuff and the deformed kernels are taken out.